4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (541+ words) (ANALYSIS) In 1843, Karl Marx called religion “the opium of the people.” He framed faith as a cheap chemical cheat code used by the ruling class to keep peasants from running riot. Marx envisioned a future in which human beings would…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (395+ words) In the modern world, very often religion and science are seen as residing at opposite ends of a spectrum of knowledge, forever irreconcilable. It hasn’t always been that way, however, and doesn’t have to be. Throughout history, with the coming…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (831+ words) NASHVILLE — Little over a decade ago, J.D. Vance was an atheist Yale Law School graduate obsessed with pursuing achievement in private life. Today he is a United States vice president who professes faith in Christ and rejects upward mobility as…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1014+ words) PARBATIPUR, Bangladesh — Buddhism is experiencing a revival in northern Bangladesh as thousands of Indigenous Oraon people have embraced the faith since the mid-1990s. Relics found in the region suggest that Buddhism was once a widely practiced religion here. In the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (506+ words) (REVIEW) At Crowley’s Ridge College in Paragould, Ark., where I teach history, we begin each class with a verse of the day to encourage students and give them a grounding, reorienting start to the morning. I am also struck by…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (411+ words) Protestant pastors register the greatest distrust in artificial intelligence interpreting “contested” Scriptures, Barna said in its latest State of the Church release in partnership with Gloo, but few pastors would abandon the technology altogether. Only 5 percent of pastors reject AI…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (982+ words) About 25 years ago, I wrote two “On Religion” columns examining the Church of Rome’s priest shortage — through the eyes of faithful mothers, with the help of a priest who had led a seminary. The headline: “Fathers, mothers & Catholic sons.” The…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (991+ words) OKLAHOMA CITY — María Ruiz Scaperlanda is looking for a miracle. More specifically, she’s seeking a miracle that can be attributed — and authenticated — to the intercession of Blessed Stanley Francis Rother. That’s the final step for Rother — the first person born…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (496+ words) (ANALYSIS) Cardinals, archbishops and bishops have many ways to communicate with Vatican officials, and even with the pope himself, outside of occasional personal meetings. In the digital age, one blunt way to reach Pope Leo XIV is to write a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (544+ words) When pastors look out from the pulpit and congregants glance around the pews, most say they see a church with people from across the generations. Almost 4 in 5 pastors (78%) and 9 in 10 churchgoers (91%) believe their church is multigenerational, with a good number…...